26 Worth Knowing PHP Tools & Resources For Web Developers

Web development is not that much difficult now a days. The important is how you do it and how much time you take to complete the task. Web developers do not have to start over from scratch all the time when there are lots of free tools making advanced Web Development a easier.

In this post i have compiled tools and resources for php developers which will make their life easier.

Seagull is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.

This program reformat and beautify PHP 4 and PHP 5 source code files automatically. The program is Open Source and distributed under the terms of PHP Licence. It is written in PHP 5 and has a command line tool.

It’s a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework.

I would recommend Netbeans IDE to start coding over there
CakePHP is okay however I saw a benchmarh comparison at DooPHP. Seems like CakePHP performance is slower than CodeIgniter. I think DooPHP cab be considered as fastest among other framework.